Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-01-29
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
The Minnesota Legislature in joint session
elected G. K. Davis United States senator q
succeed Mr.. Mcmillan.
An a cattle car on the Air line railroad wa
running near New Albany, KY, brakeman
passing over q car heard furious below
INC be meath and climbing down the side
tke car found that the partition between al
AIderney bull and Norman stallion hat
been broken and the animals we're engaged
In deadly conflict. The train was stoppet
and the crew gathered around the car, %
no means c. ld be devise for stopping TIT
encounter. The iron heels of the gam'
Loree were planted with telling Effect upol
, the bulls head and the horse was gored IN I
terrible manner. Finally the stallion got IL
blow between the eyes of the bull, and the
latter snimal fell dead. The combat lastet
a5 minutes and the horse died four hour
later.
There are nearly fourteen hundred vete
ran soldiers in the National home at MIL
vaukee, Wis, and three hundred more ART
expected on the completion of the barrack.
IN course of construction.
The International Union of brickiayert
and masons, holding session at Washing
ton, disclaims all utilization with socialists
anarchists, or communists.
At Clifton, q fishing station on the Co
lumbia river near Astoria, Oregon, Peter
Gunderson, fisherman, had q companion
named Oooby rented rocms in Frischkorn'f
house and wanted to Marry Emma, but the
mother objected. This angered him, and
with Oodby's assistance, he drove FrIsch-
corn and his family out of the house. The
naH night they returned and Guuderson
started for Frischkorn with a knife when
Emma, aged fifteen, seized dou5leSarrel-
Cd shotgun and shot him dead.
About 200 socialists met in Cooper Union
New York city, to express indignation
against Prince Bismarck for his dissolution
of the German reichstag, and to protest
against the seven year army bill of the
prince.
The Texas senate has passed a joint reso-
hutton from the house, requesting the Texas
congressman to use every endeavor to re-
peal the high tariff laws.
An exciting scene was witnessed ir JUS
tice Blatcher's court in Greenfield, Michi-
gan, at the examination of George Hazard,
q burly negro, charged with having on the
night of January 11th broken into the Cath.
ole school of st. Alphonso, in Greenfield.
and assaulted Sister Mary Hoefier, twenty
clearly proven as the guilty man there was
murmuring among the crowd. He was held
to the circuit court for trial, and while As
sistant Prosecutor Minock was making out
the commitment papers some one in the
crowd threw Flip moose on fifty foot
rope about the prisoners neck. A score of
hands instantly pulled it taut and the negro
was pulled twenty feet before he uttered q
sFy. His eyes bulged, his tongue protruded,
and he was fairly white from fright. He
thought his last hour had come, and the JUS
tioe and prosecutor thought the same.
There was great excitement among the spec
tators and only the prompt action of the Of
fcials saved the prisoner from immediate
iynching. After a Struggle the rope about
his neck was cut and he was secured in the
Justices Office until it was safe to take him
Detroit Jail.
The -ncretary of the interior has decided
what are known as the Louisiana swamp
land cases, reversing the opinion OF the CON-
missioner of the general land office. In de-
Gliding this case the secretary adopts the
opinion of the attorney general, to whom the
ase was referred, and decides that as to
uch lands as were granted to Louisiana by
the act of 1S49, the purchasers are entitled to
the protection of the state, to indemnify for
eueh lands as were sold by he United States
between March 2, 1849, and September %,
1850 but as to such as were excepted out of
the grant of 1849, and were first granted to
Louisiana by the act of 1850, being the lands
fronting Cd rivers, creeks, bayous and
water courses, the state is only entitled to
or indemnify after the passage of the act of
September Is, 1850.
The agricultural appropriation bill leaves
cut the item for sorghum sugar expert
ments-
The secretary of the treasury says it will
cost Sc, $40, S73 to collect the revenues for
the next year.
Two sca1nps wearing the Salvation Army
Aniform have been arrested in Sedalla. Mo.
for obtaining money under false pretenses.
The Wisconsin republicans, in CAUCUS,
have nominated Philetus Sawyer, and the
democrats ex-Congressman John Winans
for United States senator.
Near Agnes, Texas, John Dickey, farm
er, without ally warning murdered bis wife,
breaking her skull with stick of wood.
His 3-year-old child, who was in the arms OF
It's grandmother. he then killed, in spite of
all that could be done by the grandmother
walked to the side of his dead wife and shot
himself through the head. Dickey two or |
three weeks ago gave signs of temporary |
for few days, but it was thought !
he had fully recovered.
The charges of promiscuous immorali-
les among the inmates and other gross
at the county infirmary, at
AKRON, Ohio, came to a sensational head. In
he arrest of DR.. A. X. Fouser. for many
,ears infirmary physician, on the charge of
,ody snatching. DR.. Fouser is highly con-
aected here, and is one of the best known
# Akron's physicians. The specific act
Iharged in the affidavit is said to have been
committed ON April p, 1886, but it has been
Enown in certain circles for some time that
,oarcely burial has taken place in the in
Urinary grave yard. Boxes when handed
mt contained stones, and where bodies were
AIKEN out from the poor house and started
or the grave yard they have not been buried,
but allowed to lie beside the grave till after
lark. Then they have been taken to q down
own Office, nailed up, labeled "glass," and
shipped to Cleveland. What adds to the
gravity of the charges against DR.. Foueer is
he fact that he has been the only physician
Who attended the inmates of the infrmary
n illness, and charges are now pending in
restigstion to the effect that several inmates